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Megwa Still Not Healthy as Oklahoma Spring Ball Opens

The former UW running back has ongoing knee issues.
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Megwa Still Not Healthy as Oklahoma Spring Ball Opens
Megwa Still Not Healthy as Oklahoma Spring Ball Opens

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Emeka Megwa — the greatest University of Washington football player who never was — has resurfaced at Oklahoma, but he still hasn't resolved all of his health issues.

With the Sooners set to open spring practice on Tuesday, coach Brent Venables told reporters that the former Husky running back is "still getting things cleared up" while dealing with an ACL meniscus tear.

Megwa was supposed to be Jimmy Lake's crowning UW recruit, a player who picked the Huskies over Alabama and Notre Dame among more than 40 offers.

However, the Fort Worth, Texas, product, who had rushed for more than 3,000 yards and scored 45 touchdowns, injured his knee and had surgery when his senior high school football season began. 

Rather than rehab at home, Megwa reclassified his recruitment, graduated early and immediately enrolled at the UW in 2021. 

Yet he never played for the Huskies, for either Lake or Kalen DeBoer. He watched UW games wearing street clothes.

A year ago, he was forced to have a second knee surgery and missed DeBoer's spring football before entering the transfer portal 10 months ago.

As he tries to resurrect his football career, Mega wears No. 23, two higher than his UW jersey, and carries a 6-foot, 207-pound frame, 13 pounds lighter.

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Dan Raley has worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, as well as for MSN.com and Boeing, the latter as a global aerospace writer. His sportswriting career spans four decades and he's covered University of Washington football and basketball during much of that time. In a working capacity, he's been to the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals, the MLB playoffs, the Masters, the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and countless Final Fours and bowl games.

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